Car Mount, iOttie iTap Magnetic CD Slot Holder for iPhone 6s Plus 6s 6 SE,Galaxy S7 S7 Edge S6 S6 Edge,Galaxy Note 5

I was skeptical about this item because my phone is fairly hefty and other reviews have claimed that the mount would not support the Pixel 9 Pro XL. Apparently it does! My phone weighs 10.0 ounces, including a dBrand case and the large magnetic plate that comes with this mount. You can see it pictured in the 2nd and 3rd pictures accompanying this review. We drove about three hours from our home near Detroit to just north of Dayton, OH a couple days ago, and it stayed put on the mount, all the way there and all the way back.Maybe the trick is to place the magnetic plate near the center of the back of the phone. I initially tried placing it near the bottom, which made the whole thing top-heavy and it flopped around and fell off. But the middle works great. The only disadvantage there is that the phone partially obscures the infotainment screen, which you can see in the 4th picture (which is actually a picture of my wife's iPhone 14 - more on that in a moment). That's the bad news - but the good news is that when the phone is not on the mount, there is no obstruction of the video screen - unlike another mount I've used recently, that clamps to the sides of the phone rather than using magnetism. The 1st picture shows the mount attached to the air vent above the screen, with no obstruction with no phone present.The mount comes with two magnetic plates. One is large and the other is smaller. The directions for the smaller one make no sense to me - it is to be placed outside of the phone or case, and somehow is connected to a clear plastic film. I couldn't figure that out, but decided (after getting some customer service feedback from iOttie) that I would just attached the small plate to the back of my wife's iPhone, inside the case, near the middle. As you can see in the pictures (4th and 5th), it attached successfully to the mount.The pictures were taken of the dashboard of our 2017 Prius, by the way.

This is absolutely the best car phone holder I’ve ever bought. It’s easy to install. The magnet is strong. Everything about it is awesome.

I bought the surface mount version and it worked so well I bought another for my other car. For me the best spot was to mount it upside down, lower left windsheld so the phone sits just above the dash corner. But you can mount it pretty much anywhere on windshield, dash, probably even the A piller next to the windshield.The one little nit picky issue I had was, the metal plate interfers with wireless charging. But there is a workaround, and a product improvement here would be nice, to provide several metal plate shapes. I experiemented to find where I could put it on the back of my phone, inside my typical slim plastic case, to not interfere with the wireless charging. For my samsung galaxy I trimmed the plate into an "L" shape and stuck it alongside and below the camera area. Now I can mount and wireless charge with case on. Having a few metal plate options would help with various phone models in the same way.

Let me first say that I have bought car mounts of different types in the past, but this is the only one that really worked for me. Quite honestly, I love this thing. My car is old enough that I still have a CD player and as a bonus, I have an additional "navigation" CD slot that's separate from my CD player that is for my outdated navigation CDs to use with the car's outdated navigation system. Since the navigation CD slot is not in use and it's perfectly located high up on the dash, this was a good decision just from a "where to locate the smartphone car mount" perspective.I chose to put the metal plate on the outside of my ballistic jacket case. They aren't manufactured anymore, but they were way better than the otterbox (only comparing this to give people an idea of the metal plate placement for this car mount) and perhaps that's why putting the plate on the inside of the phone's case or on the outside of the phone's case (not the ballistic jacket case itself) just didn't create a strong connection to the magnet.Putting the magnetic plate on the outside of the ballistic case has caused absolutely no problems with my handling of my phone during normal use when the phone is off of the car mount. It is a thin metal plate that does not add to the form factor thickness of the case. People who are having trouble getting a strong magnetic connection may consider doing this. One thing of note, I put this on during the hot summer months. About 3 weeks later, the glue failed and the phone dropped off the mount with the metal plate being attached to the magnet on the car mount, instead of remaining glued to the case. Since I was satisfied with the overall function of the magnetic connection to the mount, I simply put superglue on the the metal plate and it has been perfect ever since.I did have the experience to position the magnetic mount such that the phone was perfectly vertical. When you hit those bad potholes (I do try to avoid them for the sake of my car's suspension, but sometimes you simply can't avoid them or they sneak up on you), the phone would dislodge from the mount due to the jolt. The solution is simple and that's to angle the magnetic mount such that the phone is on a little bit of the slant so that the vertical force of the vehicle's jolt on the mount has some horizontal opposing force upwards against the vertical downward jolt. Works perfectly.My phone has incurred absolutely no negative effects as a result of it's proximity to the magnet mount point. For those who are saying the magnet isn't strong enough, I would suggest purchasing a stronger magnet and placing it on the already magnetized mount. Problem solved. I didn't have to do this, but instead of throwing your money away on a perfectly good car mount, simply drop a few cents to remedy your magnetic connection if moving the metal plate to the outside of the case still doesn't work for you (after all, some phones or some phones + their case can be pretty heavy and you may need a little more of a boost, although my Samsung S5 phone with it's ballistc case and a bit of a tilt of the mount is all I needed to establish a sufficiently strong magnetic connection).I'm glad I took the chance on buying one more car mount. This time, it was definitely worth it!